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Braga is the oldest Portuguese cities and towns one of the world’s oldest Christian, founded in Roman times as Bracara Augusta, has over 2000 years of history as a city. Located in northern Portugal, more specifically in the Valley of Cávado, Braga has 173 946 inhabitants (2006) and is the center of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho (GAM), with approximately 800 thousand inhabitants. It is a city full of culture and traditions, where the history and religion are living side by side with the technology industry and university life bohemian. In popular jargon is known as: The “City of Archbishops”: for centuries the Archbishop was the most important Iberian peninsula, is still the holder of the old title of Primate of Spains. The “Portuguese Rome”: in the sixteenth century the Archbishop D. Diogo de Sousa, influenced by his visit to the city of Rome, draws a new city where the squares and churches abound as in Rome.

This title is also associated the fact that there are many churches per square km in Braga. It is also regarded as the largest center of religious study in Portugal The “City Baroque” during the eighteenth century the architect André Soares transforms the city of Braga in the Ex-Libris of the Baroque in Portugal. The “City Romana” in Roman times to be the biggest and most important city in the territory where it would be Portugal. Ausónio, distinguished genius of mayor of Bordeaux and Aquitaine, included Bracara Augusta between the major cities of the Roman Empire.

The “Capital of Minho” or the “Heart of Minho”, to be located in the heart of this province. Braga meets a little around the Minho and all the Minho has a bit of Braga. The “Holy City of Three-Montes”: shrines are located southeast of the city in a mountainous, and are the order That the South: The Good Jesus, Sameiro and Falperra (St. Mary Magdalene and Santa Marta of Cortiças). The city is closely linked to the whole Minho: the North is the traditional High Minho, in the East National Park of Peneda-mile to the south of the land senhoriais Basto and Industrial Ave and the west coast maritime Minhoto.

Braga

Braga is the oldest Portuguese cities and towns one of the world’s oldest Christian, founded in Roman times as Bracara Augusta, has over 2000 years of history as a city. Located in northern Portugal, more specifically in the Valley of Cávado, Braga has 173 946 inhabitants (2006) [1] and is the center of the Greater Metropolitan Area of Minho (GAM), with approximately 800 thousand inhabitants. It is a city full of culture and traditions, where the history and religion are living side by side with the technology industry and university life bohemian. In popular jargon is known as: The “City of Archbishops”: for centuries the Archbishop was the most important Iberian peninsula, is still the holder of the old title of Primate of Spains. The “Portuguese Rome”: in the sixteenth century the Archbishop D. Diogo de Sousa, influenced by his visit to the city of Rome, draws a new city where the squares and churches abound as in Rome. This title is also associated the fact that there are many churches per square km in Braga. It is also regarded as the largest center of religious study in Portugal The “City Baroque” during the eighteenth century the architect André Soares transforms the city of Braga in the Ex-Libris of the Baroque in Portugal. The “City Romana” in Roman times to be the biggest and most important city in the territory where it would be Portugal. Ausónio, distinguished genius of mayor of Bordeaux and Aquitaine, included Bracara Augusta between the major cities of the Roman Empire. The “Capital of Minho” or the “Heart of Minho”, to be located in the heart of this province. Braga meets a little around the Minho and all the Minho has a bit of Braga. The “Holy City of Three-Montes”: shrines are located southeast of the city in a mountainous, and are the order That the South: The Good Jesus, Sameiro and Falperra (St. Mary Magdalene and Santa Marta of Cortiças). The city is closely linked to the whole Minho: the North is the traditional High Minho, in the East National Park of Peneda-mile to the south of the land senhoriais Basto and Industrial Ave and the west coast maritime Minhoto.


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